Re: problem with .forward files + forwarding loops

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problem with .forward files + forwarding loops
\ Danny Yee (21 Sep 2007)
. \ (Wietse Venema) (21 Sep 2007)
. . \ Danny Yee (21 Sep 2007)

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Subject:	Re: problem with .forward files + forwarding loops
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	Danny Yee
Date:	21 Sep 2007

Wietse Venema wrote:
> After $myorigin was removed from $mydestination, the local(8)
> delivery agent no longer knows that \dannyt rewrites via virtual
> aliases into dannyt, and therefore it
> sends the recipient back into the mail queue.
>
> There is no simple fix for Postfix. This would involve moving all
> address manipulation (*) out of the cleanup(8) server and making
> it a separate service that can also be used by local(8) as it
> forwards mail.

Aha, thanks for the tip. I've changed
myorigin = $mydomain
to
myorigin = $myhostname
and that seems to have fixed it.

My canonicalisation should rewrite outgoing addresses to use the
domain anyway.

Danny.